Resumen

Name: Date: February 17, 2013
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| |Write 5 new vocabulary words with their definition |
|Summarize yourReading | |
| |STAUNCH: Firm andsteadfast; true. |
|Scott Douglas died two years ago because of a heroin overdose. | |
|But the moststrange thing, is that his father, Howard Douglas |GRIPS:To secure and maintain a tight hold on; seize firmly. |
|is calling for all drugs to be legalized. Howard is a staunch ||
|opponent of drugs, but he is fighting and asking for legalizing|INQUIRY: A close examination of a matter in a search for |
|drugs becausehe thinks that if drugs would be legal, people |information or truth. |
|wouldn't be addicted. He strongly believes that his son it ||
|wouldn't had died if drugs would be legal two years ago. |ANATHEMA: A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or |
|HowardDouglas thinks that drugs can be like alcohol or |excommunication. |
|tobacco, they are legal, and they are not a big problem such as||
|drugs. He was sure this was the best option, to legalize drugs.|TACKLE: To grab hold of and wrestle with (an opponent). |
|Thereare two policy options: you can legalize and regulate the| |
|supply, as you do with other drugs such as alcohol, or you can |...